The best interactive fiction games

Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.

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Plundered Hearts

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom

The Hobbit

DOS19833.9/5 Beam Software

The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft

Knight orc

DOSMac19873.9/5 Level 9 Computing

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

Perry Mason

DOS19853.9/5 Paisano Productions

Suspended

DOS19833.9/5 Infocom

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft

Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Legend Entertainment

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing

DOS19853.9/5 Adventure International

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.